After the heat wave, the Southwest suffered major hailstorms. Gironde, Charente-Maritime, Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques are among the departments most affected by the storms that Météo France had announced for the night of Monday to Tuesday. Hailstorms similar to those that hit other departments such as Indre, Loiret or Lot-et-Garonne the day before.
In Gironde, the bad weather mainly affected Bordeaux and the Gironde coast. The firefighters were mobilized on around 200 interventions related to bad weather in the department, according to an official from Sdis in Gironde, mainly for “damaged roofs, cables on the public highway, flooded premises, fallen trees”. The person in charge specifies that no victim was to be deplored.
⛈ A very violent hail storm has circulated north of Bordeaux! Impressive images from the town of Ambès this Monday evening. (© Marcel Lesoille) pic.twitter.com/Z9EyCj1IQl
— Weather Express (@WeatherExpress) June 20, 2022
#thunderstorms #hail #Charente Maritime pic.twitter.com/8mTpsHkynv
— Jordan Ⓜ️ (@Anonymous_147) June 20, 2022
And always Béarn Bordes ⚡️Photos Adrien 64 #thunderstorms #hail pic.twitter.com/I8YmbZ7kz5
— Weather Pyrenees (@Meteo_Pyrenees) June 20, 2022
Météo France reports that thunderstorms “locally virulent” on the Southwest gave “hailstones several cm in diameter, gusts of wind (105 km / h in Bordeaux), intense precipitation (more than 50mm recorded in Clion in Charente-Maritimes) and very marked electrical activity“, in its bulletin published at 10:30 p.m..
The storms will move towards the Center-Val-de-Loire during the night, continues the forecaster, and will also be accompanied by violent phenomena, such as “locally heavy hailstorms, intense rainfall accumulations” and “violent gusts of wind that can reach values of 80 to 100 km / h.
This new episode of hail is an additional blow for farmers, whose crops have suffered several types of bad weather in recent months, notes agroclimatologist Serge Zaka on Twitter.
I summarize. After suffering late frost (April), drought (January to current), scalding (May), hail (early June), heat wave (mid-June). Farmers will suffer another marked episode of hail.
The damage has already been observed in the Loiret.
COPA SAS pic.twitter.com/61ZCLCCEkB— Dr. Serge Zaka (Dr. Zarge) (@SergeZaka) June 20, 2022
The senator of Gironde Nathalie Delattre notes as for her on Twitter that “If the time is to secure people, tomorrow, for our cultures, we have no choice but to appeal to national solidarity”.